China to launch lunar lighting in outer space

19/10/2018

According to Independent UK, Wu Chunfeng, chairman of Chengdu aerospace science and technology microelectronics system research institute, disclosed this at a national mass innovation and entrepreneurship activity held in the city.

The satellite will reportedly be eight times brighter than the real moon and could replace street lights.

Speaking at an entrepreneur conference, Wu said the satellite will allow the light to be carefully controlled and kept to an area 10-80 kilometres (around 6-50 miles) in diameter. However, an expert told the People's Daily that the artificial moon's light shouldn't be so bright that it would impact them.

Rather than using up energy here on Earth, the satellite would reflect the Sun's rays from the other side of the planet back on to Chengdu.

Though skeptics have expressed doubt over whether the company will ever actually launch such a device, it does again raise questions over whether it is wise to fill the night sky with artificial lights. Wu said that his company has been working on developing and building an "artificial moon" for years and that the technology is now finally mature enough to shoot for a 2020 launch.

According to Chunfeng, Chengdu's streetlights will be replaced with the satellite that will boost the glow of the real moon.

Artificial light also throws animals off their natural day-night rhythms.

The moon will orbit the city at a height of 500 kilometers, and will be one of three artificial moons sent into space over the next four years. The artist imagined a mirrored necklace around the Earth to reflect sunlight onto Paris year-round.

It's not the first time humans have attempted to launch a light-reflecting object into the sky - but in the past, such plans have largely ended in failure.

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In the 1990s, Russian Federation carried out an experiment called Banner, testing the idea of using a mirror to reflect the sun light to Earth.

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